Interviews with Scholars of the Middle East about their New Books Support our show by becoming a pre
The history of Islamic mapping is one of the new frontiers in the history of cartography. Medieval I
October 2023 marks the 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War, a conflict that shaped the modern Mid
The world is reeling from the savage terror attack that brutalized, raped, murdered and kidnapped Is
In Hajj Across Empires: Pilgrimage and Political Culture After the Mughals, 1739-1857 (Cambridge UP,
Why did no other ancient society produce something like the Bible? That a tiny, out of the way commu
Judith Surkis's Sex, Law, and Sovereignty in French Algeria, 1830-1930 (Cornell UP, 2019) traces the
In Assad: The Triumph of Tyranny (Picador, 2023), Con Coughlin, veteran commentator on war in the Mi
This original research on the forgotten Libyan genocide specifically recovers the hidden history of
When Algerians of the 1920s and 30s imagined the future of their country, women’s liberation was fou
Ajantha Subramanian and Lori Allen turn from hosts to interlocutors in an episode that ties a bow on
In Modern Arab Kingship: Remaking the Ottoman Political Order in the Interwar Middle East (Princeton
In Ottoman Passports: Security and Geographic Mobility, 1876-1908 (Syracuse University Press, 2023),
While a positive correlation between capitalism and democracy has existed in Western Europe and Nort
Laila Shereen Sakr's book Arabic Glitch: Technoculture, Data Bodies, and Archives (Stanford UP, 2023
The oil shock of 1973 changed everything. It brought the golden age of American and European economi
Mario Baghos's book From the Ancient Near East to Christian Byzantium: Kings, Symbols, and Cities (C
Western Intervention and Informal Politics: Simulated Statebuilding and Failed Reforms (Routledge, 2
Security assistance has become the largest component of international peacebuilding and stabilisatio
Natasha Roth-Rowland is a writer and researcher at Diaspora Alliance, a former editor at +972 Magazi
Abdul Galil Shaif's book South Yemen: Gateway to the World? (Authorhouse UK, 2022) tells the story o
